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Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011

Debates on delegated legislation on Tuesday, 22 November 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Wallace of Tankerness. The answering member was Baroness Gale.

Draft Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011. Lords debate on a motion to consider. agreed to on question. Grand Committee held in the Moses Room.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

732 c380-92GC

Session

2010-12

Department

Privy Council

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011
Monday, 24 October 2011
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Parliamentary Constituencies and Assembly Electoral Regions (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2011
Monday, 28 November 2011
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 732 c381GC (Link to this contribution) Would my noble friend give way?

Lord Wigley | 732 c386-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise for arriving a few minutes late, but I mistimed the matter. I agree very warml...

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Lord Rowlands | 732 c381GC (Link to this contribution) I apologise for interrupting the Minister but he said that this order did not have anything to do wi...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c381GC (Link to this contribution) That is a very good question and I hope that the answer I give will satisfy the noble Lord. He will ...

Lord Roberts of Conwy | 732 c381GC (Link to this contribution) I was intervening simply because my noble and learned friend referred to the small number of people ...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c381-4GC (Link to this contribution) If I am right, I have those details and will come to them in my remarks. The position is that the Bo...

Earl Attlee | 732 c381GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I suggest that we allow the Minister to lay out his stall, as it were? It may well be ...

Lord Rowlands | 732 c386GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to speak briefly, partly because one of these orders amends the constituency which ...

Baroness Gale | 732 c384-5GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for giving his explanation of the order. He said that the numbers wer...

Baroness Randerson | 732 c385GC (Link to this contribution) Noble Lords will forgive me if my comments are very brief, for obvious reasons; it is not easy for m...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c380GC (Link to this contribution) That the Grand Committee do report to the House that it has considered the Parliamentary Constituenc...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c380-1GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of this draft order is to implement the recommendations made by the Boundary C...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c392GC (Link to this contribution) I am almost certain that it would require legislation and it would be Westminster legislation, just ...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c391-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot answer that question because there is no answer to it at the moment, other than t...

Lord Rowlands | 732 c392GC (Link to this contribution) I apologise, but if there are changes of the kind that are being foreshadowed, would they require le...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c390-1GC (Link to this contribution) Quite simply because the Explanatory Memorandum is a statement of the effect of the order as the law...

Lord Wigley | 732 c391GC (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Wallace. The question that arises is how we ensure...

Lord Jones | 732 c389GC (Link to this contribution) The Minister is helpful and kindly, notwithstanding his brief, but the draft order contains the word...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c389GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I explained to the noble Lord’s noble friend Lord Rowlands, the words ““Parliamentary C...

Lord Jones | 732 c389GC (Link to this contribution) The noble and learned Lord knows that Scotland has taken a hit but he has not given the reason why W...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c389-90GC (Link to this contribution) The reason is that, following the proposals by the Boundary Commission for Scotland, the Boundary Co...

Lord Wigley | 732 c387GC (Link to this contribution) As I was saying before we were interrupted, a question remains about the mechanics for sorting out a...

Lord Jones | 732 c387-8GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for his exposition and the noble Baroness, Lady Gale, for hers and fo...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c388-9GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this debate. I think it is fair to say tha...

Baroness Gale | 732 c390GC (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that there could be changes before 2016? That is the concern in Wales and wha...

Lord Wallace of Tankerness | 732 c390GC (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I could just repeat what the noble Baroness quoted to me: my right honourable friend the Sec...

Lord Rowlands | 732 c390GC (Link to this contribution) Why, therefore, is no such qualification included in the Explanatory Memorandum to the order? Why is...